Wargaming Week 06/08/2018

Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 30th of July through to the 5th of August.

BLOG STUFF

This week’s main post was taking a look at Empress’s Strykers, in both ICV and MGS versions. These guys have been sat undercoated on to-do list for over a year but I just hadn’t got round to doing the final touches to them. Overall I really like them and I’m already thinking about picking up a few more as I get ready for turning the US Army troops into a platoon sized force.

Also hello to all the new people joining ChargeBlog for the first time! I’ve started increasing how many sites I publish to so more people can see what I’m working on. Hope you all enjoy the site, the Something for the Weekend category is full of feature posts.

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Spectre Miniatures are hard at work on some new stuff but they drop a photos of some really tooled up vehicles. We’ve seen a preview of one of these vehicles before (the Humvee mothership at the back) but it’s great to see the different chassis all modded up. Most of the items are recognisable from the current stowage pack but there are a few items we haven’t seen before like the Javelin tube and FLIR camera. Expect more news coming soon. If you want some more pictures, a few close ups have been released on the Spectre Facebook group.

PURCHASES

Nothing – seriously!

HOBBY

As you might expect, the main thing this week was finish the Strykers off. It took me a grand total of an evening’s work to finish them off from the undercoat of green, just painting up the black elements, adding metal detailing and then dust for the final effect.

I’ve been busy with work for most of this week (meaning also that I ended up missing my local show Claymore on Saturday) so the rest of my hobby time has been pretty limited. However, I did fit in a little bit of time to put another pair of Space Marines together and start work on finishing off the pile of US Army guys sat on my desk. These guys should be the subject of this week’s post thanks to the relatively simple paint scheme – expect another Range Impressions soon.